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Washington Post corrects op-ed about no black players on Argentina soccer team
New York Post ^ | 12/12 | Ariel Zilber

Posted on 12/13/2022 3:30:44 PM PST by nickcarraway

The Washington Post was forced to issue a correction to an op-ed piece that lamented the absence of black players on Argentina’s national soccer team — even though the black population of the South American country is less than 1%.

The correction was attached to a Dec. 8 “Perspective” piece by author Erika Denise Edwards, who wrote an op-ed as part of the newspaper’s “Made by History” series.

“Why doesn’t Argentina have more black players in the World Cup?” read the headline of the op-ed.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: argentina; blackplayers; washingtonpost
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Do they want to force black people tp play soccer?
1 posted on 12/13/2022 3:30:44 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
The "author" SURPRISE!


2 posted on 12/13/2022 3:33:53 PM PST by DAC21
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To: nickcarraway

Clearly there’s not enough blacks in sports…


3 posted on 12/13/2022 3:34:02 PM PST by EEGator
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To: nickcarraway

Argentina is whiter than the United States. Odd though that a white Argentinian can immigrate here and be considered “Hispanic” or “brown” by certain knuckle headed Anglos.


4 posted on 12/13/2022 3:35:33 PM PST by Clemenza
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To: nickcarraway

America is so divided. The Bezos Compost worries about the number of black players in a foreign nation. I, on the other hand, am trying to avoid that foreign sport. Not like I worry. That’s what remote controls are for.


5 posted on 12/13/2022 3:37:30 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: All

Who would even notice such a thing.


6 posted on 12/13/2022 3:41:30 PM PST by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: nickcarraway

How many whites play for Nigeria’s national basketball team?

Compost is race-obsessed as usual.


7 posted on 12/13/2022 3:43:25 PM PST by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerorum delenda sunt.)
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Oh my God! They didn’t capitalize “black”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


8 posted on 12/13/2022 3:45:00 PM PST by utax
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Why didn't the Washington Post ask this? Morocco, an African nation whose soccer team plays in the semi-finals tomorrow, has how many black players? Zero.

9 posted on 12/13/2022 3:52:34 PM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: DAC21
1. Gross.

2. There are race horses. There are one trick ponies. And then there are one trick race horses with horse faces. This be one of those.

10 posted on 12/13/2022 3:52:37 PM PST by Captainpaintball
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To: nickcarraway

Interestingly, mostly white countries like Switzerland, Netherlands, France, the UK etc have a disproportionate amount of black players. Blacks are better athletes. We need more on our national team but soccer is such an expensive sport to participate in the way it is set up in our country compared to other nations. Blacks have better muscle structure, stamina and likely a larger portion of their brain dedicated to controlling their musculoskeletal system. They are physically superior in many ways. This also tends towards slightly increases aggression and perhaps lower Western thinking test taking ability.


11 posted on 12/13/2022 3:58:41 PM PST by consult
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To: nickcarraway

Everything is about race with the left.


12 posted on 12/13/2022 4:08:25 PM PST by Parley Baer (WI)
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To: rfp1234

How many whites play in the NBA? Haven’t watched an NBA game since the Jordan era, but I would guess that percentage is fairly close to the percentage of blacks in this country.


13 posted on 12/13/2022 4:11:51 PM PST by allblues (God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat but Satan is definitely a Democrat)
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To: allblues

17% whites was a number I found.


14 posted on 12/13/2022 4:14:55 PM PST by nascarnation (Let's go Brandon!)
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To: nickcarraway
"Edwards, an associate professor of Latin American history at the University of Texas at El Paso, wrote that the lack of black players on Argentina’s World Cup roster stood in “stark contrast” to other South American soccer powers such as Brazil."

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Well, professor, that might have something to do with there being a lot more black people, and black mixed-race people, in Brazil than in Argentina. I am not even a professor of Latin American history and I know that.

15 posted on 12/13/2022 4:17:30 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

People give anyone a diploma.


16 posted on 12/13/2022 4:37:27 PM PST by TTFX
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To: escapefromboston

An acidic racist.


17 posted on 12/13/2022 4:38:19 PM PST by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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Oh my God! They didn’t capitalize “black”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Washington Post did.

I guess the New York Post doesn't play that game.

18 posted on 12/13/2022 4:39:34 PM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: nickcarraway

why??? cause they’re a country and not a Disney movie...


19 posted on 12/13/2022 5:20:50 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Clemenza

—”Odd though that a white Argentinian can immigrate here and be considered “Hispanic” or “brown” by certain knuckle headed Anglos.”

YES!!!

A guy I worked with started a very successful business with that exact claim.

Fluent in Spanish with a Spanish-sounding surname...

Most if not all of his work was with the City of Chicago.

A Tex-Mex guy that I also worked with knew all about it and was he PISSED. He claimed that the workers were not Hispanic but Chilean.

Maybe they were all Latinx???


20 posted on 12/13/2022 6:09:21 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last messa)
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